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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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463 words match “LOOS”

UNDRESS n.
A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.
UNFASTEN v.
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
UNFETTER v.
To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
UNFIX v.
To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.
UNFURL v.
To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
UNGIRD v.
To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.
UNHAND v.
To loose from the hand; to let go. Hold off! unhand me, gray beard loon! Eftsoons his hand dropped he. Coleridge.
UNHARNESS v.
To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen. Cowper.
UNHASP v.
To unloose the hasp of; to unclose.
UNHITCH v.
To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.
UNHOOK v.
To loose from a hook; to undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress.
UNLACE v. 3 definitions
To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe.
UNLASH v.
To loose, as that which is lashed or tied down.
UNLATCH v.
To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.
UNMOOR v.
To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t.
UNMORTISE v.
To loosen, unfix, or separate, as things mortised together. Tennyson.
UNMUZZLE v.
To loose from a muzzle; to remove a muzzle from.
UNPIN v.
To loose from pins; to remove the pins from; to unfasten; as, to unpin a frock; to unpin a frame.
UNPINION v.
To loose from pinions or manacles; to free from restraint. Goldsmith.
UNREAVE v.
To unwind; to disentangle; to loose. [Obs.] Spenser.
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